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“I Will Remember Apollo” (kulupu.duckdns.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Looks like theres a final surprise in the form of a song in Apollo now that it’s closed.

Can anyone identify the artist?

EDIT: someone managed to find it. From Christian’s YouTube page:

A fun parody of Sarah McLachlan's I Will Remember You performed by the incredible Zoe Wynns

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Crazy to see my lemmy account at <1m old when my Reddit one is 15yrs 11mo…kinda bummed I’m all but resigned to moving on just short of my sweet 16.

Hope to see these federated services take off!

RIP Apollo

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

No worries brosef. You’re early-adopting yet again. Give it time, and you’ll be one of the legacy guys once again.

  • 10-year Reddit user
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

11 year old reddit account ❌ (deleted)

20 day old lemmy account ✅

[–] tappyturtle 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I never thought about that... I'll be proud to show off my account age in a few years

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

This is the way.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Image Transcription: Image with Text:


[The mascot icon for the app 'Apollo for Reddit', a small cartoon-style astronaut's head, is shown smiling in from of a pink heart, with two smaller hearts floating above it. There is a white volume icon in the upper right corner and white text below the icon. The image has a black background.]

Thank You

Apollo shut down on June 30th due to reddit making drastic and sudden increases to API pricing for developers.

It was an absolute honour to build Apollo for you all over the last 9 years, I loved every minute of it.

If you'd like to continue to support me, there's some options below!

- Christian (u/iamthatis)


^I'm a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good human

Glad to know you guys are still around ^-^

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Glad to know we're still remembered

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Glad to see this has come to Lemmy! Keep up the great work friend!

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Release Apollo app for Lemmy 🤷‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Wefwef app feels like I’m on Apollo. I love it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I’m using it as I type this and it is incredibly similar, almost eerily. I’m kind of hoping the developer gives it it’s own unique character and soul in the future. Or since it’s open source (I’m pretty sure?) someone else can.

But with that being said I still strongly recommend so far

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I kinda like the fact that it’s just Apollo. As a Reddit refugee it helps to have something familiar

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I hope that Christian will make an app for Lemmy! I think he'll take a break for a while to relax after dealing with reddit's bullshit.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The amount of times I’ve opened the app due to muscle memory and seeing that screen…. Rip Apollo and fuck spez. I hope he steps on the pointiest of lego bricks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wefwef is not bad for a web app that you can add to your Home Screen. Mlem is basically inspired by Apollo, seems easy to use. It’s in TestFlight so you’ll have to download that and then grab the link to the beta.

There is another one called memmy, but I can’t find a working TestFlight link for that one as it requires a code to download.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm sure Christian is taking some time off to lick his wounds and regroup, and I truly hope he's able to move forward. If he makes a Lemmy app, I'll definitely jump on it.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

RIP Apollo and fuck you spez 🖕

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hoping for the day Christian makes Apollo for Lemmy; I’d gladly pay for it

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Check out wefwef.app! It feels just like Apollo and I’m loving it.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

I'll miss Christian's community engagement. It was always so nice to see an engineer who loved his product. Hopefully we'll see him on the dark side;)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There is void left by Apollo - that I don't think will be filled for a long time.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’d love to see Apollo rise from the ashes but I get how Christian must be feeling about the whole thing right now. Still, its legacy will live on. Standards have been set and I’m sure a lot of devs have taken inspiration from that.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Apollo was such a lovely experience. I still hope that Christian will rise up and produce something for iOS. I still keep looking for it's icon on my iPad Pro's dock!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's insane. The Parody is just Wow

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Question. Who owns these lemmy sites? I understand it’s decentralized. Can someone breakdown exactly what that means? Who, if anyone, owns these sites/servers, how it all works?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Anyone can make their own server. Then those server talk to each other to share the posts, comments and votes. You are on lemmy.ee, I'm on lemmy.one, different owner, slightly different rules, but we see the same stuff

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It’s been fun, Apollo will be missed. I hope Christian will have a go at a fediverse app in the future.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

🎶 I will remember you

You will remember me

Don’t let your loooooove pass me by 🎶

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yo why does that song have me crying

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Never used the app, tried it and thought it was great, but my use case for Reddit was too simple, so I stuck with the official app. Having said that, removing such option by Reddit was one of the main reasons that pushed me to this platform. It made me realize how much power these centerlised platforms have.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

RIP Apollo 😢 Thank you Christian for so many years of a great app.

Lemmy seems to have the promise to be a better platform than Reddit could ever be, but it is bitter sweet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I’m sad that Apollo is gone, but Memmy for Lemmy fills the hole left in my Home Screen just fine. The app has already progressed so far, it’s licensed under the GPL, and it has made my transition from Reddit to Lemmy flawless.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I will miss Apollo! I hope he makes a Lemmy client. Wefwef is the closest there is right now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Of all the things I was thinking for a potential final surprise, a memorial song was not one of them! RIP, Apollo.

Christian Selig’s YouTube channel has the video posted, and the description there says the vocalist is Zoe Wynns.

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